Re: [klibc] Re: Exporting which partitions to md-configure

H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-07T15:47:18Z

Luca Berra wrote:
>
>> This, in fact is *EXACTLY* what we're talking about; it does require
>> autoassemble. Why do we care about the partition types at all? The
>> reason is that since the md superblock is at the end, it doesn't get
>> automatically wiped if the partition is used as a raw filesystem, and
>> so it's important that there is a qualifier for it.
>
> I don't like using partition type as a qualifier, there is people who do
> not wish to partition their drives, there are systems not supporting
> msdos like partitions, heck even m$ is migrating away from those.
>

That's why we're talking about non-msdos partitioning schemes.

> In any case if that has to be done it should be done into mdadm, not
> in a different scrip that is going to call mdadm (behaviour should be
> consistent between mdadm invoked by initramfs and mdadm invoked on a
> running system).

Agreed. mdadm is the best place for it.

> If the user wants to reutilize a device that was previously a member of
> an md array he/she should use mdadm --zero-superblock to remove the
> superblock.
> I see no point in having a system that tries to compensate for users not
> following correct procedures. sorry.

You don't? That surprises me... making it harder for the user to have
accidental data loss sounds like a very good thing to me.

-hpa